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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND UNDERTAKING
To: The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited Hong Kong
To: HKMC Insurance Limited Hong Kong
Re : 1) Borrower : (the “Company”)
2) The HKMCI SME Financing Guarantee Scheme (the “Scheme”) operated by HKMC Insurance Limited (“HKMCI”)
In this Acknowledgement and Undertaking (the “Acknowledgement”), unless otherwise specified, (i)
all references to any person shall include its respective successors and permitted assigns and
transferees and any persons deriving title under them, and (ii) all references to a document shall
include any subsequent amendment or supplement thereto from time to time.
In consideration of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (the “Bank”) granting
or agreeing to grant or continuing to grant certain banking facilities to the Company or otherwise granting
forbearance indulgence or other accommodation to the Company, or other valuable consideration (the
receipt of which is hereby acknowledged), I/we jointly and severally confirm and undertake to the
HKMCI and the Bank that:-
(i) I/we have granted or will grant Security and/or guarantee(s) in favour of the Bank in respect of,
inter alia, the banking facilities granted or to be granted by the Bank to the Company under or
in connection with the Scheme;
(ii) I/we acknowledge that a guarantee or guarantee(s) (the “Guarantee”) may be granted or
has/have been granted by the HKMCI in respect of the banking facilities granted or to be granted
by the Bank to the Company (the “Facility”) under the Scheme;
(iii) I/we confirm that I/we have either obtained independent legal advice or has voluntarily waived
my/our right to seek such independent legal advice. I/We fully understand the nature and extent
of my/our obligations and liabilities as guarantor(s) and/or security providers in relation to the
Facility and have acted or will act independently and free from any undue influence of any person;
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(iv) the HKMCI’s rights, including but not limited to its right of subrogation, shall at all times rank
in priority to the rights and remedies, if any, of me/us and any person giving any Security or
otherwise in relation to the Facility. I/We shall not exercise in any manner or to any extent my/our
rights or remedies against the Company or any such person or in relation to any Security,
including but not limited to any right of subrogation, indemnity or contribution which I/we have
or may have in law or equity or under any Security or guarantee or otherwise, unless and until the
HKMCI has fully and unconditionally recovered all amounts paid by the HKMCI under the
Scheme or unless and until the HKMCI otherwise consents in writing. We shall not assert against
the HKMCI any rights or remedies;
(v) in addition and without prejudice to any other right the Bank and the HKMCI may have, each of
the Bank, the HKMCI and their respective related bodies may at any time access, inspect, obtain,
and make copies of (free of charge), any of my/our materials (including any document, record and
information) in connection with the rights, interest, obligations or liabilities of the HKMCI under
the Scheme, the related deed between the Bank and the HKMCI and any Guarantee;
(vi) I/we hereby authorise the Bank, the HKMCI and their respective related bodies, to the extent
related to the relevant Guarantee or the Scheme, to inspect all books, records, accounts and any
other information relating to me/us or my/our business, whether in paper, electronic or any
other form or medium, at the request of the Bank and/or the HKMCI and their related bodies (as
the case may be);
(vii) I/we hereby acknowledge, agree and authorise that:
(a) in addition and without prejudice to any other right the Bank may have, the Bank and its related
bodies disclose and/or transfer my/our personal data and other information from time to
time in its possession to the HKMCI in relation to the Facility, the relevant Guarantee,
the Company and/or any guarantor or security provider of the Company in respect of the
Facility and other related purposes;
(b) the HKMCI may use such personal data and information for the purpose stated in (a) above,
and disclose and/or transfer any such personal data and information received or held by it to
the Trade and Industry Department or the Hong Kong Government or provider(s) of credit
protection for such purposes as considered appropriate by the HKMCI; and
(c) in the event that such information includes the personal or other data of any third party or
individual, I/we confirm and warrant that I/we have obtained the consent of such third party
or individual to the provision of such data to the Bank and to the use and disclosure by the
Bank pursuant to the terms of this Acknowledgement. I/We shall indemnify and hold the
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Bank harmless from all costs, penalties, damages and other losses incurred as the result of
any breach of the terms of this paragraph (c);
(viii) the use of the Facility which has been granted or may be granted by the Bank is subject to the
terms and conditions of the Scheme in which the Bank has participated; notwithstanding that
the Company may be required to pay the Bank an amount equal to the guarantee fee payable by
the Bank for the cover provided to the Bank by the HKMCI pursuant to the Scheme, the Scheme
is for the sole and exclusive benefit of the Bank, and that none of us shall be deemed to be a
party to it, or a beneficiary of it, and that no payments made under the Scheme to the Bank shall
affect or lessen the Bank's rights of remedy against any of us in the event of default of the loan
or drawings under the Facility; and
(ix) for the avoidance of doubt, I/we confirm that all sums from time to time owing by the Company
to the Bank under the Facility are and shall be secured by all and any Security created by me/us
and the Company, before or at or after the date of this Acknowledgement, which is by its terms
expressed (in any manner whatsoever) to secure all monies owing by the Company to the Bank
from time to time, and I/we shall not seek to claim or assert anything to the contrary.
In this Acknowledgement:-
Security means a mortgage, charge (whether fixed or floating), pledge, lien, hypothecation,
assignment, security interest, cash collateral arrangement or other encumbrance of any kind securing,
or a right conferring a priority of payment in respect of, any obligation to pay of any person or any
other agreement or arrangement having a similar effect, but does not include any lien arising in the
ordinary course of trading by operation of law and not by contract (but shall include, in relation to any
finance lease or hire purchase contract, the vesting of beneficial ownership of the relevant asset in the
finance lessor or hire purchase seller, and shall include, in relation to any factoring or other receivables
purchase facility, the vesting of beneficial ownership of the factored or purchased receivables in the factor
or purchaser).
This Acknowledgement is in addition to, and shall not prejudice, any right of the Bank or HKMCI
under any other agreement, document or otherwise.
This Acknowledgement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Hong
Kong Special Administrative Region (“Hong Kong”). I/We submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of
the Hong Kong courts.
No one other than the Bank and myself/ourselves will have any right under the Contracts (Rights of Third
Parties) Ordinance to enforce or enjoy the benefit of any of the provisions of this Acknowledgement.
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This Acknowledgement has been executed and delivered by me/us as a deed.
Dated the day of 20 .
Signed Sealed and Delivered by:
L. S.
(Name of Signatory in Block Letters) (Signature)
I/D Card No. (or equivalent) of Signatory:
in the presence of:
Name of Witness:
I/D Card No. (or equivalent) of Witness:
Address of Witness:
Occupation of Witness:
(Signature of Witness)